On 24 June, the Strawberry Moon will appear in the night sky. The first full Moon of summer will be its biggest and brightest. According to scientists, the Strawberry Moon marks the last full moon of the spring season and the first of the summer season. The summer season in...
A giant blinking star is found near the center of our Milky way galaxy. The news about the discovery is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. According to the news, an international team of astronomers has spotted the giant ‘blinking’ star more than 25 thousand light years...
NASA is to collaborate on The European Space Agency ESA’s science mission. ESA announced EnVision as its newest medium-class science mission on 10 June, 2021. ESA says EnVision will make detailed observations of Venus to understand its history and especially understand the connections between the atmosphere and geologic processes. NASA...
A study published online in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has mentioned that two exoplanets are found by planet hunters. Including Cesar Rubio, there are listed more than a dozen other citizen scientists as co-authors of the study. Citizen science is a way for members of the public...
This year’s first solar eclipse, annular solar eclipse 2021, is going to occur on Thursday. Solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves between the Sun and the Earth and blocks the Sun’s light from reaching the Earth. The Thursday’s eclipse is an annular one. In an annular eclipse, the Sun...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is going to make a close approach on Monday to the Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. According to NASA, the flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to the solar system’s largest natural satellite since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach back on 20...
As a part of the NASA’s Discovery Program, the US Space Agency has declared its plan of sending two missions to study about Venus,our closest planetary neighbour. The missions aim to understand how Venus came to become an inhabitable world when its many characteristics are similar to earth. Scientists say Venus...
Image Credit: JPL/NASA Mars Curiosity rover has sent pictures of shining Martian clouds viewed in the Martian sky. NASA says the science team is studying the clouds. They arrived earlier and formed higher than expected, to learn more about the Red Planet. According to NASA, cloudy days are rare in...
NASA has planned Roman Mission to reveal cosmic mysteries. As we know, the universe has uncountable mysteries waiting to be revealed by humans. Adding a brick to the task, NASA has planned to use its upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to observe thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across...
The concept whether parallel universes exist is one of those intriguing and imaginary ideas, which are too difficult for us to accept. The ideas have first arisen in the context of quantum physics. It insists that things at a subatomic particle level have unpredictable outcomes even if you know everything...
Blood Moon is going to occur on 26 May. On the day, there is going to take place a total lunar eclipse during which the moon will turn red. This eclipse will be the first in the series of four big lunar eclipses in the coming two years. According to...
NASA says the rover ‘VIPER’ Will search for water and other resources on the Moon. NASA is planning to send its first mobile robot named Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon in late 2023. As part of the Artemis program, the mission aims the rover to search for water and...
As far as we have acknowledged till now, the Universe was created about 13.7 billion years ago. Billions of stars and planets must have existed way before the creation of the earth. Our earth was formed just 4.5 billion years ago. So, some of the Planets which have existed since...
A new study by a collaborative Asterochronometry project, funded by the European Research Council, shows that the researchers have recently traced the best pieces of evidence to the date which provides insights into the timing of how the early Milky Way was merged to take the present size. The research...
China touches the Mars surface successfully. It has become the second country after the US to successfully land on the red planet when an unmanned Chinese China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on Mars on Saturday. Tianwen-1, currently in orbit around Mars, dropped its lander and rover on the surface of the...